Ex Libris announces Linked Data collaboration program - January 8, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest® company, has formed a program to help Ex Libris harness Linked Data technology in its resource management and discovery solutions. Institutions that have already joined the program include Boston College and University of Oklahoma in the US; University of Manitoba in Canada;… Read More
New national licence agreement offers Switzerland unlimited access to Cochrane Library - January 8, 2016
A new national licence agreement offers Switzerland unlimited access to the Cochrane Library - the leading resource in evidence-based health care. Swiss patients and healthcare practitioners will now have access to more than 6500 published systematic reviews in healthcare interventions through one-click access to the… Read More
NISO receives two grants to undertake creation of a framework on data and privacy - January 8, 2016
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has received two grants to develop a consensus framework for mitigating and managing the privacy risks related to the collection, preservation, sharing, use, and re-use of research data sets. The grants from both the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the… Read More
Wolters Kluwer to publish Rehabilitation Oncology journal - January 7, 2016
Rehabilitation Oncology, the official journal of the Oncology Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), has commenced a publishing partnership with Wolters Kluwer with the January 2016 issue. The journal becomes the seventh APTA section journal to be published by Wolters… Read More
HighWire joins CHORUS, supports publishers’ efforts to facilitate public access to federally funded research - January 7, 2016
HighWire Press, Inc., a technology platform and strategic partner to influential scholarly publishers and societies, has announced its participation as an affiliate member of CHORUS (Clearing House for the Open Research of the United States). A not-for-profit membership organisation, CHORUS' goal is to help publishers… Read More
Dr. Felicia Cosman named new Editor-in-Chief of National Osteoporosis Foundation’s Osteoporosis International - January 7, 2016
The National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) has announced that Dr. Felicia Cosman, Medical Director of the Clinical Research Center at Helen Hayes Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physician and Surgeons in New York, has been selected as its new Editor-in-Chief of Osteoporosis… Read More
